On set for one day -BEING A DAY PLAYER

Being a Day Player is one of the hardest jobs in the film and television industry. You arrive on a set where everyone else has been working together for weeks, often with little information about your character, no rehearsal and no second chance. Drawing on more than 50 years as a professional actor and hundreds of film and television performances, Colin David Reese explains what it really means to work as a Day Player — from arriving on set and navigating its strict hierarchy to working with directors, A-list actors and the camera crew. This is not another book about how to become an actor. It is a practical guide to surviving the day, understanding what is expected of you, adapting instantly to direction and, above all, making your performance useful to the editor. Straight-talking, practical and based on hard-won experience, Being a Day Player gives actors the knowledge and confidence to walk onto a professional set and know what to do.